Vehicle dash-board



(No Model.)

- T. H MADER.

' VEHICLE DASH BOARD.

Patented May 27, 1884.

NITE STATES aren't muc THEODORE H. MADER, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

VEHICLE DASH- -BOARD.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,236, dated May 27, 1884.

Application filed February 29, 1884.

(No model.)

I citizen of the United States, residing at Zanesville, in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Dashes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the attachment of dashes to vehicles; and it consists in provid ing a dash foot with a shoulder and tenon and screw-threaded projection adapted to extend through a slot in the dash-frame, and to receive a nut for securing the frame thereto, in combination with the body properly mortised to receive the tenon of the said foot, as more fully hereinafter described.

The improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side sectional view of dash and body with my improvement attached, and Fig. 2 a detached view of the foot.

In the drawings, A represents a dash-frame, B the body, and O the foot. The foot 0 is made in one piece, and provided with a shou1- der, (1, which fits squarely against the dashframe, a projection or tenon, c, and a screwthreaded projection, f. The body B is mortised at g for the reception of the tenon c, which tenon also extends into the slot in the dash-frame. The foot 0 is also provided with bolt-holes h, to receive bolts h, which pass up from under the body and are screw-threaded to receive the nuts 2'. The foot 0 is secured to the body B by simply dropping it onto the bolts h, its tenon 0 into the mortise g, and putting on the nuts t. The dash-frame is secured by placing its slotted ends on the projections c and applying the nuts I. By this construction the dash, with the feet attached thereto, can be taken off the body by simply removing the nuts 6 from the bolts h,- or the dash can be removed from the feet by taking off the nuts m. In vehicles in which the bodies drop down below the spring-bar the .dash can be put on without taking off the bodyloops-the irons which run from the body to the springbar. By thus extending the foot through the slot in the dash a much firmer, stronger, and more durable bearing is obtained than by the use of bolts or other forms of fastenings passed through the dash and into the end of the foot on the other side, and the tenon and mortise features add greatly to the strength and security of the device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isp The dash-foot 0, provided with the shoulder to abut against the dash-frame, and the screwthreaded projection 6, extending through a slot in the dash-frame, in combination with the body, mortised, as shown, to receive said projection, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE H. MADER.

WVitnesses:

GEO. L. PHILLIPS, J. F. Manna, Jr. 

